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Member
Speaking in the House of Lords on 22 June 2026
Debate
Sporting Events Bill [HL]Contribution
I asked the organiser of an event in scope, and he explained that you should be able to surrender your ticket back to the organisers for resale as little as 30 minutes before the game. That is lunacy. All it does is encourage hopefuls to hang around the turnstiles and then be disappointed with 10 minutes to go when suddenly there are no tickets to buy. It is the perfect recipe to charge the entrance—exactly the behaviour that we want to prevent but that this cack-handed legislation will aid and abet.
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